Lewis Hyde is a scholar and writer whose scholarly work focuses on the nature of
imagination,
creativity, and
property.
Hyde received an M.A. in comparative literature from the
University of Iowa and a B.A. in sociology from the
University of Minnesota. After many years of freelance work and odd jobs, he taught writing at
Harvard University (1983-1989); in his last year there, he directed the undergraduate writing program. From 1989 to 2001 he was the Luce Professor of Arts and Politics at
Kenyon College in Ohio. As of 2006, he is the Richard L. Thomas Professor of Creative Writing at Kenyon, and a visiting fellow at Harvard's
Berkman Center. He is also a Nonresident Fellow at the
USC Annenberg Center for Communication.
Hyde's awards include an
NEH Fellowship for Independent Study and Research (1979); three
NEA Creative Writing Fellowships (1977, 1982, 1987); a
MacArthur Fellowship (the "Genius" award) (1991); a residency at the
Getty Center, Los Angeles (1993-94); an "Osher Fellow" at the
Exploratorium in San Francisco (1998);
[1] a Lannan Literary Fellowship (2002); an
American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship (2003); and a
Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship (2006).
He is the son of Elizabeth Sanford Hyde and
Walter Lewis Hyde.
Bibliography
- Twenty Poems, by Vincente Aleixandre (1977) Translated by Lewis Hyde and Robert Bly, edited by Lewis Hyde
- The Gift: Imagination and the Erotic Life of Property (1983)
- On the Poetry of Allen Ginsberg (Under Discussion) (1985)
- Alcohol and Poetry: John Berryman and the Booze Talking (1986)
- This Error is the Sign of Love: Poems (1988) Milkweed Editions
- "Elegy for John Cage" (1993) Kenyon Review 15 (3): 55-56
- "American memory, American forgetfulness + Heritage and history" (1997) Kenyon Review 19 (1): U1-U4
- "2 ACCIDENTS, REFLECTIONS ON CHANCE AND CREATIVITY" (1996) Kenyon Review 18 (3-4): 19-35
- "The Land of the Dead" (1996) Kenyon Review 18 (1): 27-34
- "Prophecy (An excerpt from the forthcoming book, Trickster Makes This World, Mischief, Myth, and Art)" (1998) American Poetry Review 27 (1): 45-55
- Created Commons (Paper Series) (1998)
- Trickster Makes This World: Mischief, Myth, and Art (1998)
- "Henry Thoreau, John Brown, and the problem of prophetic action (Excerpted from the introduction to The 'Essays of Henry D. Thoreau')" (2002) Raritan - A Quarterly Review 22 (2): 125-144
- The Essays of Henry David Thoreau (2002) Edited by Lewis Hyde
- Posts at On The Commons blog
References
Imagination is the ability to form mental images. It helps providing meaning to experience and understanding to knowledge; it is a fundamental facility through which people make sense of the world,[1][2][3]
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Creativity (or creativeness) is a mental process involving the generation of new ideas or concepts, or new associations between existing ideas or concepts.
From a scientific point of view, the products of creative thought (sometimes referred to as divergent thought)
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Property law
Part of the common law series
Acquisition of property
Gift · Adverse possession · Deed
Lost, mislaid, and abandoned property
Alienation · Bailment · License
Estates in land
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University of Iowa, also commonly called Iowa or U of I, is a major coeducational research university located on a 1,900 acre (8 km)
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University of Minnesota, Twin Cities is the oldest and largest part of the University of Minnesota system. It is located on two campuses in the cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota; the campuses are linked through a dedicated bus system.
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Harvard University (incorporated as The President and Fellows of Harvard College) is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA and a member of the Ivy League.
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Kenyon College is a private liberal arts college in Gambier, Ohio, founded in 1824 by Bishop Philander Chase of the The Episcopal Church, in parallel with the Bexley Hall seminary. It is the oldest private institution of higher education in Ohio.
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Yearbook = El Rodeo
Nickname Trojans
Men/Women of Troy
Mascot Traveler
Fight song Fight On
Athletics 19 varsity teams,
NCAA Division I
Affiliations AAU
Pac-10
Nobel laureates 1
Website www.usc.edu , www.usctrojans.
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The Annenberg Center for Communication (ACC) at the University of Southern California promotes interdisciplinary research in communications between the USC School of Cinematic Arts, Viterbi School of Engineering, and the separate USC Annenberg School for Communication, also funded
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National Endowment for the Humanities
Official seal and logo
Agency overview
Formed September 29, 1965
Jurisdiction Federal government of the United States
Headquarters 1100 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.
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The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) is a United States federally funded and donation assisted program that offers support and funding for projects that exhibit artistic excellence. It was created by an act of the U.S.
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The MacArthur Fellows Program or MacArthur Fellowship (sometimes nicknamed the "genius grant") is an award given by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation each year to typically 20 to 40 citizens or residents of the U.S.
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The Getty Center in Los Angeles, California, USA, is the current home of the J. Paul Getty Museum as well as a research institute, conservation institute, grant program, and leadership institute. The museum opened on December 16, 1997. It is owned and operated by the J.
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Exploratorium is a public science museum, located in the Marina District at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco, California. It is one of San Francisco's most popular museums, drawing over 500,000 people each year.
Founded in 1969 by the physicist Dr.
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The American Council of Learned Societies, founded in 1919, is a private non-profit federation of sixty-eight scholarly organizations.
ACLS is best known as a funder of humanities research through fellowships and grants awards.
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Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been awarded annually since 1925 by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts.
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Walter Lewis Hyde (1919-2003) was an American physicist, an early contributor to the field of fiber optics. He held patents for devices used in ophthamology, as well as a panoramic rear-view mirror for automobiles.
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Robert Bly (born December 23, 1926 in Madison, Minnesota) is an American poet, author, activist and leader of the Mythopoetic Men's Movement in the United States.
Life
Robert Bly was born in Madison, Minnesota to parents of Norwegian stock.
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John Milton Cage Jr. (September 5, 1912 – August 12, 1992) was an American composer. He was a pioneer of chance music, non-standard use of musical instruments, and electronic music.
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Henry David Thoreau
Central topics
Henry David Thoreau
Civil Disobedience
''Herald of Freedom
Life Without Principle
''The Last Days of John Brown
Paradise (to be) Regained
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Raritan Quarterly Review is a well-regarded literary journal that publishes poetry, fiction and essays. The journal is based at Rutgers University in New Jersey. It was founded by Richard Poirier and is currenlty edited by Jackson Lears.
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